Fwd: Striated Glass

[Anne Bickford]

Hi All,

I sent the  message from John to Miles Lewis who replied as below. Miles also sent us by dropbox his fantastic resource on Aust building  which you can find a link to on his website. http://www.mileslewis.net/australian-building/   It has the entry  section 11.5, p 81 for corrugated glass 

Regards,

Annie

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Miles Lewis" <mil...@iprimus.com.au>

Subject: RE: Striated Glass

Date: 24 March 2015 9:32:58 pm AEDT

To: "'Geoff Cunningham'" <geof...@bigpond.net.au>

Cc: <john.p...@bigpond.com>, "'Anne Bickford'" <ab...@bigpond.net.au>

Dear Geoff

 

I’ll send you (and John and Anne) a link to my notes on glazing, in which you will find the essential point that the glassmakers  Pilkingtons made 'Patent Corrugated Sheet and Rolled Glass' to fit iron of three or five inch pitch corrugations. That’s why I asked about the pitch of yours. The only other surviving specimen I know of was at the Venus Crushing Battery, Charters Towers, Queensland.

 

But I still don’t know the name or location of your property.  Please will you tell me.

 

And now I have to question you about the iron. I don’t believe that William Sandford made corrugated iron, and he certainly didn’t make galvanised corrugated iron.  Does yours have any brand or identification?  Again, in my notes you’ll find a gazetteer of iron brands.

 

Regards

Miles Lewis

 

 

Professor Miles Lewis AM

34 Napier St. Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia

(61) (0) 412 368 992

mil...@iprimus.com.au

http://www.mileslewis.net/

 

From: Geoff Cunningham [mailto:geof...@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2015 7:29 PM
To: mil...@iprimus.com.au

 

I’ll send you a link to my notes on glass
Subject: Striated Glass

 

Hi Miles

 

John Pickard has referred me to you. I have a woolshed built in 1899 that had corrugated striated glass sheets substituted for corrugated galvanised iron sheets over the stands in a 5 stand blades shed and I think over the wool table.

 

I think John has sent you my original email so that contains the info re the sheets. The corrugations matched those in the iron, The iron was made by William Sandford at Lithgow NSW prior to 1900. The Lithgow works ceased operation in 1906.

 

The roof was blown off the shed in the 1920s and all that is left is sections of glass. I collect the pieces and have one about 30cm long and 8 – 10 cm wide.

 

Have you seen anything like it before.?

 

Regards

 

Geoff Cunningham

Anne Bickford

Director

Archaeology And Heritage Pty Ltd

PO Box 304 CAMPERDOWN 1450

Ph: 02 95699672     

Mob: 0419 496872

email: ab...@bigpond.net.au